#bolshevik

[theworldofwars]

Burial of victims of Bolshevik terror in Omsk, winter 1919.

#Bolshevik #russian history #history #world war 1 #1917 #historical photos #canadian history #russia #russian culture #ww1 #ww1 poetry #ww1 stories #ww1 art #ww1 history #wwi #world war one #The Great War #The First World War

[mockva]

In this photograph, the Bolsheviks displayed the jewelry of the Romanov family members they killed, including Faberge eggs, before foreign guests before an auction in 1925. Rich families from Europe and the United States gladly bought jewelry and unique pieces of art looted by the Bolsheviks.

#USSR #1925 #bolshevism #bolshevik #kommissar

[septictankie]

Lenin on May 5, 1920 in Teatralnaya Square (then Sverdlov Square), where a parade of the Moscow garrison troops took place.

#socialism #communism #marxism #politics #capitalism #soviet union #history #vladimir lenin #lenin #soviet #communist #bolshevik #moscow #revolution #russian revolution

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Since Trotsky came to Mexico I have understood his error. I was never a Trotskyist.

- Frida Kahlo

In the summer of 1940, Frida Kahlo found herself in jail. Mexico City police suspected her as an accomplice in the murder of the embattled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Several days prior to her arrest, he’d been gruesomely offed with an ice pick. His murder - and her implication in the crime - was a dramatic turn of events, especially considering that Kahlo and Trotsky had been giddy lovers just three years earlier; she’d even dedicated a striking self-portrait to him.

Kahlo had many romantic partners over the course of her short life (she died in 1954 at 47), but few resulted in dedicated paintings—and fewer pointed explicitly to her political beliefs. The liaison with Trotsky did both. Although their romance only lasted several months, it offers a window into Kahlo’s politics and how deeply they influenced her work.

Kahlo and Trotsky first met in 1937, when the painter was 29 and the politician was 57. Kahlo and her husband, muralist Diego Rivera, were vocal supporters of Marxism and had been on-and-off members of the Mexican Communist Party for a decade, since 1927. Influenced by the Mexican Revolution at the turn of the century, they advocated for a populist government and believed political power should rest in the hands of the working class.

By the mid-1930s, Kahlo and Rivera both considered themselves Trotskyites. They’d followed the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism closely, and knew Trotsky as a hero of the 1917 October Uprising, which cemented Vladimir Lenin and the Socialist regime’s rise to dominance. But when Joseph Stalin assumed leadership in 1924, he consolidated power and demoted Trotsky, exiling him for good in 1929. As a result, the Communist party fractured into two main camps: Stalinists and Trotskyites.

It was Rivera who convinced Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas to offer Trotsky political asylum in Mexico. After several years in Turkey, France, and Norway, Trotsky and his wife Natalia Sedova boarded an oil tanker and docked in Tampico, Mexico on January 9, 1937. Rivera was sick, so Kahlo greeted them at the port, along with a troop of armed guards.

Kahlo and Rivera offered the Trotskys their second home, the now famed Casa Azul, equipping it with guards, barricades, covered windows, and alarm systems to ensure their political hero’s safety. Sedova recalled the beginnings of the trip fondly in a letter to friends: “We were breathing purified air…A motorcar…carried us across the fields of palms and cacti to the suburbs of Mexico City; a blue house, a patio filled with plants, airy rooms, collections of Pre-Columbian art, paintings from all over: we were on a new planet, in Rivera’s house.”

It wasn’t long after the Russian couple settled in that a romance developed between Kahlo and Trotsky. The politician’s secretary, Jean van Heijenoort, remembered the pair’s blatant flirtations under the nose of Trotsky’s wife. Sedova didn’t understand English, the language in which the lovers communicated. They met clandestinely at Kahlo’s sister’s house, and Trotsky slipped love notes into books he lent her. Kahlo and Trotsky’s meek attempts at discretion didn’t prevent Sedova from discovering the affair. She gave her husband a “me-or-her ultimatum. It seems that Kahlo tired of the romance around the same time. Despite their split, the two remained friends for some time until Trotsky’s murder.

Photo: Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky (right), Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (centre), and revolutionary and wife of Trotsky Natalia Sedova, photographed Together In Mexico In 1937.

#leon trotsky #trotsky #frida kahlo #kahlo #art #artist #marxist #communism #comunnist #mexico #russia #revolutionary #relationship #diego rivera #history #stalin #russian revolution #bolshevik #arts #society #politics

[antiwaradvocates]

The official portrait of Tsar Nicolas II from the Winter Palace. The vertical lines on it are bayonet marks from the storming of the palace during the October Revolution.

#communism #socialism #ussr #Bolshevik #tsar nicolas #vladimir lenin

[leftistfeminista]

Bolshevik women at the front, saving the Russian Revolution

#Bolshevik #russian revolution

[kimjeongeun]

how is this not even an aesthetic???

#communism #communist #aesthetic #china #russia #soviet #soviet aesthetic #bolshevik #red aesthetic #red #communist aesthetic #communism aesthetic #ussr #cccp #sovietwave #soviet art

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

TROOPS OF DOOM WILL SPREAD JUDEO-BOLSHEVISM -- PIECE BY PIECE BY PIECE.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a postcard first published in 1939 titled "Bolschewismus ohne Maske" ("Bolshevism Unmasked"), with an illustration of a Communist soldier attempting to rule the world with a hammer and sickle against the backdrop of a yellow star of David, implying the Nazi opinion that Jews were behind the Communist phenomenon.

FULL OVERVIEW: "Not everyone who had read "Mein Kampf" took seriously the rabid outpouring of filth and hatred it contained. But in his own words, Hitler described how his eyes had been opened at an early age to the "two menaces" which threatened the existence of the German people: Communists and Jews.

These two objects of his hatred would become, after his seizure of power, subjected unrelentingly to vicious propaganda and heinous persecution. That Marxism, or Bolshevism, was to Hitler a "doctrine of destruction" which itself must be destroyed for the survival of all Germans may be seen plainly in the picture on this official postcard from the Great Anti-Bolshevist Exhibit organized by Goebbels' Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.

"Bolshevism unmasked," reads the inscription over a world engulfed in red flame and branded with a hammer-and-sickle in the center of a yellow Jewish Star, recalling Hitler's rant in "Mein Kampf" that "in Russian Bolshevism we must see the attempt undertaken by the Jews in the twentieth century to achieve world domination!" A ghostly image of Death as an armed revolutionary clutches in both hands its weapons of destruction. The exhibition was held in Vienna in 1939. Six years earlier Communists had been among the first of those countless victims rounded up for the concentration camps."

-- UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON

Source: https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AFEMLOIYBU6FPX9A.

#Nazi Germany #Judeo-Bolshevism #30s #1930s #Judeo Bolshevism #Communist #Postcard #European History #Bolshevik #Anti-Communism #Jewish Communism #Judeo-Bolshevik Conspiracy #Bolshevism #Anti-Communist #Bolshevism Unmasked #Graphic Design #Postcards #Third Reich #Propaganda Art #Vintage postcards

[jadwiga-abremovic]

David Burliuk, late 1910s.

A favourite in Petrograd night clubs and art galleries during the revolutionary era.

#david burliuk #ukranian artist #poetry #soviet union #queer socialism #lgbt #communism #october revolution #spilled ink #lgbt solidarity #queer lit #petrograd #bolshevik #1917

[denislieak]

Transforming communism

#countryballs #rsfsr #russia #white army #red army #bolshevik #ussr #russian civil war #civil war #animation #gif #fanart #transformation

[danielparisi]

Saw this and instantly bought it for the bathroom

#bolshevik #home decor #bathroom decor

[thesynaxarium]

Today we also celebrate the Holy New Martyrs and Passion Bearers of the Romanov Family, the last Royal Family of Russia - Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei. These Saint were martyred by the Bolsheviks in 1918. May the Holy Passion Bearers intercede for us all + #saint #saints #martyr #martyrs #newmartyr #newmartyrs #tsar #tsarnicholasii #tsarina #romanov #romanovs #romanovfamily #royalfamily #russia #bolshevik #bolsheviks #nicholas #saintnicholas #alexandra #alice #olga #tatiana #maria #anastasia #alexei #alexi #orthodox #saintoftheday (at Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Russia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgFjWwFvdt4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#saint #saints #martyr #martyrs #newmartyr #newmartyrs #tsar #tsarnicholasii #tsarina #romanov #romanovs #romanovfamily #royalfamily #russia #bolshevik #bolsheviks #nicholas #saintnicholas #alexandra #alice #olga #tatiana #maria #anastasia #alexei #alexi #orthodox #saintoftheday

[mockva]

Who Was Nothing, That Became Nothing

#communist #russia #lenin #commy #proletarian #Red #Bolshevik #Socialism #Socialist

[septictankie]

"What is Soviet power? What is the essence of this new power, which people in most countries still will not, or cannot, understand? The nature of this power, which is attracting larger and larger numbers of workers in every country, is the following: in the past the country was, in one way or another, governed by the rich, or by the capitalists, but now, for the first time, the country is being governed by the classes, and moreover, by the masses of those classes, which capitalism formerly oppressed. Even in the most democratic and freest republics, as long as capital rules and the land remains private property, the government will always be in the hands of a small minority, nine-tenths of which consist of capitalists, or rich men.

In this country, in Russia, for the first time in the world history, the government of the country is so organised that only the workers and the working peasants, to the exclusion of the exploiters, constitute those mass organisations known as Soviets, and these Soviets wield all state power. That is why, in spite of the slander that the representatives of the bourgeoisie in all countries spread about Russia, the word "Soviet" has now become not only intelligible but popular all over the world, has become the favourite word of the workers, and of all working people. And that is why, notwithstanding all the persecution to which the adherents of communism in the different countries are subjected, Soviet power must necessarily, inevitably, and in the not distant future, triumph all over the world.

We know very well that there are still many defects in the organisation of Soviet power in this country. Soviet power is not a miracle-working talisman. It does not, overnight, heal all the evils of the past- illiteracy, lack of culture, the consequences of a barbarous war, the aftermath of predatory capitalism. But it does pave the way to socialism. It gives those who were formerly oppressed the chance to straighten their backs and to an ever-increasing degree to take the whole government of the country, the whole administration of the economy, the whole management of production, into their own hands.

Soviet power is the road to socialism that was discovered by the masses of the working people, and that is why it is the true road, that is why it is invincible."

#socialism #communism #marxism #politics #anti capitalism #soviet union #history #lenin #soviet #communist #bolshevik #leninist #leninism #Youtube

[cosmo-naute]

#Trotsky #lev Trotsky #Leon Trotsky #Russian Revolution #Bolshevik #communism #russia #soviet union #ussr #October Revolution

[godsavetheavantgarde]

CENTRAL COUNTER RELIEF, VLADIMIR TATLIN, 1915

#art history #avant garde #modern art #constructivism #Vladimir tatlin #1910s #sculpture #modernity #russia #russian #russian avant garde #Bolshevik #new age #revolutionary